Law Library

As of January 2008 the library's subscriptions to the following journals will change from paper to electronic format: Law and Philosophy, Law and Human Behavior, Law and Critique and International Journal for the Semiotics of Law.

Proposed Amendments Approved by Supreme Court (April 2007) - (Effective December 1, 2007) can be located at Rules. All documents are available in PDF format.

Oxford Islamic Studies Online contains over 3,000 reference articles and chapters by leading scholars and specialists in their fields and Qur'anic studies resources, including two Oxford World's Classics translations of the Qur'an, linked to the first online version of A Concordance of the Qur'an by Hanna Kassis. This resource can be accessed through a link on Annie or at http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/

Google Patent Search covers the entire collection of patents made available by the USPTO—from patents issued in the 1790s through those issued in the middle of 2006. They don’t currently include patent applications, international patents, or U.S. patents issued over the last few months, but plans are in place to expand coverage in the future. Access at Google http://www.google.com/googlepatents/about.html

Lewis H. LaRue, Motives for Idealizing the Pragmatic, 52 Vill. L. Rev 843 (2007) (Symposium: Expertise in the Courtroom: Scientists and Wizards:Panel Two: Post-Daubert Controversies), available at Lexis and Westlaw .

Mark A. Drumbl, The Expressive Value of Prosecuting and Punishing Terrorists: Hamden, the Geneva Conventions, and International Criminal Law, 75 Geo. Wash. L. Rev. 1165 (2007)(Symposium on the New Face of Armed Conflict: Enemy Combatants After Hamden v. Rumsfeld) available at Lexis and Westlaw.

Lyman P.Q. Johnson, Having the Fiduciary Duty Talk: Model Advice for Corporate Officers (and Other Senior Agents), 63 Bus. Law. 147 (2007) available at Westlaw.

Official website for United Nations (UN) conventions dating from 1958 that govern claims, counterclaims and sovereignty disputes of the sea. The concerns addressed include ocean noise, the Continental Shelf, seabed authority, and ocean management training. Features text of conventions, historical overview, links to material about bodies established under conventions, and news. Also includes links to related sites. Access at Sea